Proletariat

Marx critiques Hegel in various texts. Beginning with “On the Jewish Question” Marx states that the reality of civil society is that humans are enslaved to necessity not equality. The more that people work in the capitalist system they become more unequal as disparities between the rich and poor grow. Hegel states that when fulfillment is reached, society can contain egoism. The goal of civil society then takes everybody into account which creates a state of freedom. In such a society…

Is Karl Marx theory of class conflict relevant for understanding contemporary Chinese society? Since China started the economic reform in 1978, Chinese economic influences and power are stronger than before. But in the meanwhile PRC/CPC governors also felt the great anxiety about rapid change of society structures. The major reason was after the reform, China is not simply made by labor and farmer classes, but more and more people getting wealthy and joined bourgeoisie class. That challenges the…

the United States to countries with poorer economies and populations. The exploitation had been expanded on a larger scale. Marx believes that this capitalistic exploitation will gradually change to a socialistic society (with the rise of the proletariat) and “will eventually lead to a communist…

19th century France was a time of deception and pretence. In a society supported by the working class, the bourgeoisie turned to social appearance as a source of value. Upper class women relied heavily on social events as opportunities to show off their wealth by dressing fashionably and gossiping, while the men used their wives as symbols of power and prosperity. However, a good deal of these husbands "visited prostitutes for sexual adventures of kept mistresses" (Social Classes), proving that…

their relationship differently. Marxist literary criticism focuses on the struggle between the lower and upper class and the issues of power and money in literature. Readers with this point of view would perhaps look for the oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie. As well as looking at the commodification of people, where people are treated as commodities. They might also focus on how social classes are represented and how they interact or conflict. Feminist…

During her transformation into an “American girl” Fang Sui Yong was forced to navigate through an onslaught of unfamiliar expectations, foreign words, and strange, new sights and people, all hurling at her a million miles per second. Her journey was complex and in order to be thoroughly analyzed, one must view it through the lense of the sociological imagination which C. Wright Mills defines as "an awareness of the relationship between a person's behavior and experience and the wider culture…

The “Divergent” trilogy is a series of movies that display classic components of cultural Marxism. There are many aspects of “Divergent” that have comparisons to Western Civilization, and just as many instances of Cultural Marxism at play. On the surface, “Divergent” presents itself as a series in which its heroes defy expectation and go against the “norms” by breaking tradition, but underneath therein lie the seeds of Cultural Marxism, planted by the creators of the series. However, in order…

off producers (Jan 24). Being a member of a class doesn’t mean having a consciousness. Within capitalism workers would organize themselves within the system. Once gained consciousness reguarded how exploited they were, Marx had doubts whether the proletariat would even get class consciousness. There was a possibility workers would satisfy themselves with just short-term reform. What are short term reforms to overthrow capitalism? Minimum wage laws, increasing working conditions. Having the right…

Conflict Theory and wrote The Communist Manifesto. There are some key ideas for Marx’s theory. He argued that everything is about class conflict. The bourgeoisie, or capitalists, were the class that paid the proletariat, or workers, and often took advantage of them. He claimed that the proletariat all experienced a thing called the false consciousness, where they didn’t realize how exploited they were being by the bourgeoisie. Marx believed this would lead to conflict during a process called the…

to the other sociological theorists. With the rise of industrialization, the social classes changed to who was related to the mean of production, so the owners of the factories and machinery were called the bourgeois, who had more power than the proletariat, those working in the factories, creating the product. With this class distinction, Marx believed that it would lead to problems and conflict between the classes, because each class had their own interest, for instance, the bourgeoisie might…